Shocking Phones

[zappacky]

Well this is a question and a good laugh.

A few days ago I called my friend on an average touch tone phone. You know, rubber buttons, metal back, plastic case? And as I was talking, I got shocked very painfully from the right side of the metal on the phone. I thought it was static and brushed it off. It happened about siz more times and I was worried that if it shocked me any more I was going to get burns on my face. So I told him I would go do a different phone. I go downstairs and pick up the phone down there. I put it up to my ear and prompty get #%#!ing shocked again, from the same place on that phone as the one upstairs! I told him I would call him through my computer (where I have a headset) and as I went to hang up, I get shocked in my left thumb from the same place on the metal as the other two times (on different phones). I am now cursing rather loudly cause my cheek is all sore, and my thumb just got shocked, and all the fing phones have it in for me. Two days later, it happens again! It happened today too! WTF.

If anyone else has experienced this, or has a way to fix it, please post!

[budman7]

Do you have a phone that has a speaker option, so you can leave the phone sitting a couple feet away.
If you don't have one, you should get one.
You must have an electric personality.

[zappacky]

Hm prolly a good idea.

Yea I think I do. This guy was doing a demo and he was saying the average static shck was like x volts? So I went up and generated as much as I could and the meter he had hit 10x or more volts. He was comletely stunned, partially at the number displayed, partially at the thought i survived

[Roxoff]

Sounds like it could be a line fault. Phones aren't supposed to deliver high voltages during a call (for this very reason) but do so when ringing (try it, get your phone extension socket, take the wires out the back and hold them while someone calls you up...)

Get an engineer at your phone co to check it - if you're in the UK, a BT line check should be pretty easy to organise.

[ImNeat]

Take a balloon and rub it against the top of your head really fast.

Why? 'cuz it's fun...